• The Trump Report: The Latest Updates
  • Trump Visits Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
  • Millions of honeybees escape into a rural Texas neighborhood after a semitrailer crash
  • Pentagon No Longer Lists 4 Troops Killed
  • Trump Defends Economic Policies
Years after oil pipeline protests, North Dakota and government settle

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The federal government will pay North Dakota nearly $28 million to settle a lawsuit over the costs of policing massive protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline nearly a decade ago, the state’s attorney general announced Thursday.

What to expect in North Dakota's state primary

WASHINGTON (AP) – North Dakota’s lone U.S. House member faces a partial rematch of her 2024 nomination race in a state primary on Tuesday. Also on the ballot is a proposed amendment to the state constitution, while residents of Fargo will elect a new mayor.

Dutch court to hear Greenpeace lawsuit against US energy company

AMSTERDAM (AP) – Judges in Amsterdam handed Greenpeace a preliminary victory on Wednesday in an anti-intimidation court case, rejecting a request from fossil fuel pipeline company Energy Transfer to toss the complaint out.

Politics
Cheaper, open and intelligent: Chinese AI models make inroads in the US

HONG KONG (AP) – China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence. San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 for many of his day-to-day activities within days of the new, powerful model’s launch more than a week ago.

Politics
A forced-labor crackdown? Dissecting Trump's new tariffs

NEW YORK (AP) – The Trump administration has imposed double-digit tariffs on more than 60 countries, using a legal justification that permits the president to levy import taxes and other sanctions against countries found to engage in “unjustifiable,” “unreasonable” or “discriminatory” trade practices.

Politics
'Skynet Day' came too close to sci-fi after rogue agent hacked into a startup

To be fair, James Cameron did warn us. Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous artificial intelligence system that triggers a nuclear apocalypse.

Politics
Trump defends economic policies in Michigan, where Canadian tariffs may sting

MILFORD, Mich. (AP) – President Donald Trump is touting his handling of the economy during a visit to suburban Detroit on Monday, defending sweeping tariffs in a swing state where their effects have hurt many businesses as midterm election season heats up.

Politics
US-Canada bridge opens in Detroit even as trade disputes test neighbors' ties

DETROIT (AP) – A major new bridge linking Canada and the U.S. at Detroit opened Monday to trucks, cars and other vehicles, the climax of a yearslong project that lately had been bruised a bit by international politics. Descendants of Gordie Howe, the hockey legend whose name is on the bridge, were among the first to cross over the Detroit River.

Politics
Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains shift on Russia's war

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online. Now, as she travels across Ukraine to see the damage inflicted by Russia in its yearslong war, she wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own.

NEW YORK (AP) – The Trump administration has imposed double-digit tariffs on more than 60 countries, using a legal justification that permits the president to levy import taxes and other sanctions against countries found to engage in “unjustifiable,” “unreasonable” or “discriminatory” trade practices.

1
Fifty hot air balloons launch at Russian festival to set new record
2
US pauses attacks on Iran for second straight day and Tehran does too
3
Wildfires in France drive 250,000 people from their homes
4
Spanish Civil Guard rescue and give water to animals amid wildfires